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Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hey-wait-a-minute dept.

rsmiller510 writes "The EE Times reports this week that Dell has released a hybrid laptop running both Linux and Windows clearly aimed at business travelers. Linux for quick tasks and Windows for more intensive ones, but will such a machine really fly in the business world?"

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  1. Dupe? by Bearhouse · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not dual-booting really, you either run Linux on an ARM, or Windows on a Core2.

    Link at end to the original EE article, rather than gushy blog.

    Did we not cover this earlier this week?

    http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3TF41VYEZTQY0QSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=213402554&printable=true&printable=true

  2. Re:Will it fly? by chaim79 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The new 17inch Macbook Pro's have an 8gb limit.

    Dell XPS line of laptops also have an 8gb limit.

    It may take a while for that standard to trickle down to the lower end laptops, but the trend at least has started.

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  3. Re:Will it fly? by lmfr · · Score: 4, Informative

    ntfsfix is the equivalent fsck.ntfs

    It comes in the package ntfsprogs.